Record ID:
295578
Accession number:
MA 1565.54
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description:
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.7 cm
Notes:
Date is from Besterman.
Part of a large collection of letters from Madame du Châtelet to Charles Augustin de Ferriol, comte d'Argental. Items in the collection are described in separate records; see MA 1565 for more information.
Summary:
Expressing surprise that he has not yet received the tragedy Voltaire and she sent him and mentioning the letters Voltaire sent and would like him to pass on (his statement and a letter to the assistant public prosecutor). Asking him to dissuade Voltaire from going to Paris.
Provenance:
Sale (Hotel Drouot, 23 Feb. 1954, item 25).
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